DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Calls for action to address economic risks from worrying climate scenarios have come from natural scientists for decades - now economists are lending their voices, writes the University of Delaware's Dr James Rising. Does unmitigated climate change carry the risk of economic collapse? Natural scientists like James Hansen and E.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Hall tweeted: “Carbon neutral by 2030 promises [London Mayor Sadiq] Khan.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Investors signing this week's letters have called on the 47 U.S.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Accurate, localized data on the sources of methane emissions will allow us to make critical progress toward the goals of the Global Methane Pledge – and our latest announcement aims to help do just that,” said Michael R.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming". Others, however, have cast doubt on the assumptions behind such conclusions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 10, 2022

How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming – and its consequences, according to leading scientists Michael E. Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know: 'Can I really make a difference?'. Mann and Tom Bateman. Believing ‘I can do this'.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Panellists from across Europe and the U.S. criticised climate science and action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, describing the EU’s net zero goal as “stupid propaganda” at the event organised by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Brussels. However, he added that he was “a little bit sceptical, because I’m sceptical of everything”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

UNEP Adaptation Gap report shows the world is still hundreds of billions of dollars short of what is needed to finance climate adaptation. of warming above pre-industrial levels and are proving to be more intense than many scientists expected. UNEP's report does point to some progress made by governments on climate adaptation.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Oxford University is facing criticism after the UK’s principal climate science denial group appointed a second professor to its ranks. Defending his membership of the thinktank, Dobson told DeSmog he did not consider members of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to be climate deniers “for the most part”.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Without the necessary carbon storage from forest trees, global temperatures will continue to rise and intensify consequent climate change damage. Climate change exacerbates conditions through insect and pathogen outbreaks that further compromise tree health and development. Science Via NPR and PNNL.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

In October 1989, Shell researchers wrote a confidential report warning that climate-fuelled migration could swamp borders in the United States, Soviet Union, Europe, and Australia. The potential refugee problem in GLOBAL MERCANTILISM could be unprecedented. Conflict would abound,” the document said. Conflicts would abound. .

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

But while the nature of threats to health, economies and societies posed by the two crises are very different, a new report this week from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change argues there is much the past year's Covid-19 challenges can teach businesses and policymakers about combatting climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as the number one threat facing society, ahead of future pandemics and economic instability. Moreover, he said that London's financial sector had a major role to play in leveraging its world-renowned risk expertise to tackle the climate crisis. "It

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

He said the fight against global warming was “the most important story of our political time” and delivering successful action to combat climate change also “means a free world order”. And with the most recent Climate Change Conference in Dubai, it has become clear that the age of fossil fuels is nearing its end.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private sector cannot address the full range of impacts from climate change without strong public policy designed to help stabilize the climate. Companies therefore have a responsibility to their investors to encourage climate-friendly government policies, the letter emphasises.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

HSBC Asset Management has launched its inaugural Paris-Aligned exchange-traded fund (ETF) to investors access to a universe of companies aligned with global efforts to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change. climate scenario. per cent, with further listings expected across Europe in the coming weeks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

The court, which is responsible for interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights, recently accepted two climate lawsuits with similar human rights arguments but brought by very different groups of people. The case had been brought by ten families in Europe and indigenous Saami youth organisation Sáminuorra.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Majority of risk experts and the general public in the UK view climate change as number one threat facing society, ahead of pandemics and economic instability. Moreover, he said that London's financial sector had a major role to play in leveraging its world-renowned risk expertise to tackle the climate crisis. "It

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

While unchecked global warming could knock 7.6 per cent off GDP, net zero could boost global GDP by 3.8 Climate change could cost the global economy $178tr over the next 50 years if left unchecked, amounting to a 7.6 per cent, according to Deloitte. per cent GDP boost in 2070.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. It is crucial to develop national policies to reduce food waste. Approximately 1.3 Ways To Decrease.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Barclays was the largest European financier of fossil fuels between the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, which set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, and 2022. Students across Europe have protested at schools and universities since returning for the new academic year.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Policy-driven benefits. The industry needs long-term policy and subsidies to stimulate hydrogen demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

The court, which is responsible for interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights, recently accepted two climate lawsuits with similar human rights arguments but brought by very different groups of people. The case had been brought by ten families in Europe and indigenous Saami youth organisation Sáminuorra.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

Shareholders at JP Morgan Chase have signalled a growing desire that the world's largest funder of fossil fuels curbs lending activities that exacerbate climate change. Fugere said that JP Morgan Chase's inaction in the face of the "staggering risks of climate change" was "noteworthy and unacceptable."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From rogue Tory backbenchers to North Sea profits for Putin, in the past year the DeSmog UK team has kept tabs on the people, money and PR machines that work to slow meaningful action on climate change. s anti-climate agenda in the words of the Grantham’s Institute’s Bob Ward. Wind Turbines on Oil Rigs.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. Air Pollution goes down as Europe takes hard measures to combat virus. Source:Rume, T. and Islam, S., online] PMC.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Ireland’s national broadcaster has publicly apologised for failing to link recent extreme weather events to climate change, pledging to set up a dedicated climate reporting unit in the run-up to COP26. In response, RTÉ appears to have since edited the article to include reporting on the climate angle.

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